Marva Wright – Marva

Description

Release Date: 2000

Label: Aim Records

 

Track List

1. I’m Still Wearing Your Name
2. Difficult Woman
3. Love Away The Pain
4. Let Them Talk
5. The Weight  (featuring: Charmaine Neville, Bo Dollis, Terrance Simien)
6. Rockin’ Pneumonia (I Got It Bad)
7. I Been Hoodood
8. You’ve Been Partyin’ All Night
9. The Maker
10. Serve Somebody
11. Knocking On Heaven’s Door
12. You Broke A Beautiful Thing
13. Guess Who
14. Cabbage Alley  (featuring: Bo Dollis)

 

Personnel

• Marva Wright – vocals
• Norwood “Geechie” Johnson – percussion
• Jeffery Alexander, Doug Belote, Earl Smith, Tony Dillon – drums
• June Yamagishi – guitars
• Sam Henry, Josh Paxton, Marc Adams, Michelle Goods – piano, B-3
• Benny Turner, Cornell Williams, Nick Daniels – bass
• Charles Elam, Brian Murray – horns

 

Notes

This is Marva’s tenth album and her third for the Australian based Aim label. Featured on it are some of Marva’s musical friends including vocalists Charmaine Neville, Bo Dollis and Terrence Simien. Charmaine Neville of the very talented Neville clan has her own successful group that performs regularly in New Orleans and internationally. Bo Dollis is the Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias. Terrence Simien is one of the leading performers of the indigenous Louisiana music known as Zydeco.